The ghost ship was swallowed up by the whirlpool, the sea swelled, the waves pounded against the hull, and the whole ship began to shake violently under the impact of the huge waves.

Back on deck, Shirley almost fell, but Rov took her in his arms in time, and quickly flew into the cabin with her in his arms, locking the door.

The two held hands and stared cautiously out the window.

After a few moments, Rove suddenly heard a high-pitched, hysterical cry of fear coming from the box.

Shirley immediately opened the box, only to see Nellis, who was wearing pajamas, stumbling down the stairs and asking, with a frightened face:

"What's wrong?!"

"The waves are receding." Rove explained, "The ghost ship has been caught in the maelstrom. ”

In the jolt, Nelishi held on to a table, but the table had long since decayed, and she fell to the ground, and with a miserable scream, she said:

"Then why don't you ride a broomstick and fly away from this ship?!"

Shirley grabbed Rove's collar with one hand, pulled up Nellisie with the other, and said loudly:

"It's too dangerous outside now, we can't get out."

Nellis hugged Shirley, and at the same time turned her head to look out the window, and saw an extremely terrible scene:

Cobweb-like lightning split the sky and danced over the deck, bright lightning shining through the windows to illuminate the cabins, brighter than the sun.

Looking at the lightning in the sky, Nelishi was dumbfounded, riding a flying broomstick like this, like a live target, is indeed very dangerous!

So, the three of them had to hide in the cabin, watching the skeleton captain and a dozen Yin corpses, kneeling on the bow to face the storm, raising their hands above their heads, and praying loudly.

The rest of the time was a raging storm, which lasted for more than a dozen hours, and the jolting finally stopped.

Rally, Shirley, and Nellis return to deck.

At this time, the sea gradually calmed down and the whirlpool disappeared, but what I saw in front of me was not reassuring:

The ghost ship seemed to be covered under a giant bowl, and dark clouds rose up like black mountains, blue and purple points of electric light, illuminating the steep cloud cliffs and rugged cloud slopes around it.

"Rove, look there!" Shirley suddenly tugged at the boy's arm. "See? There! ”

Rove turned to look out at the distant horizon and saw a row of rocky ridges rising from the end of the sea, and on the steep ramp stood a statue of a mermaid.

She had three heads, faces facing three directions, and six arms, stretched out in all directions, each holding the following:

Crosses, chests, sickles, and three torches that glow blue.

Rove didn't expect to see this hundred-meter-tall mermaid statue again, and this time it was clearly not ...... Mirage!

Under the command of Captain Skeleton, the Shadow Corpse sailors changed course, and the ghost ship raised its tattered sails, splitting through the gray-green waters, and headed for the giant statue.

As the ghost ship approached the ridge where the waves crashed, the figure of the mermaid became more terrifying and clearer.

Rove stood on the deck, looked up, and saw that the statue was covered with marks:

There were the marks of fire, the cracks of the magic attack, and the scratches of the sword, and even the three faces were imprinted with deep, shiny dents......

It's like you've been attacked!

The mermaid's twin tails landed on both sides of the ridge gap, each stepping on a mountain.

The wind and waves drove the ghost ship with all its might, quickly passing under the twin tails of the mermaid statue.

Rove, Shirley, and Nellis huddled together in the bow of the boat, their heads held high, staring intently at the statue.

As you pass through the statue, the ridges on either side fade away, the wind weakens, and the ghost ship sails into a large lagoon, and beyond that, an island appears.

From a distance, you can find traces of inhabitation on the island:

The terraces cover the slopes, and on the slopes there are huge wooden windmills with paddles made of wood and canvas that rotate slowly in the light breeze of the bay.

Near the coastline, quite a few buildings appeared, but the houses were half-submerged in the sea.

Half of the building had collapsed, or could not bear the weight of the thick gray moss on it, or was pulled down by the thick black vines of the water.

The ghost ship finally came to a halt at the edge of a ruined bridge, a wooden bridge with a wide wooden body that had long since decayed, flanked by heavy white piers with layers of gray moss hanging from them, and the river roared angrily around it.

At this moment, Captain Skeleton came over, and he said respectfully:

"The voyage is over, Your Majesty. You walk along the road, and soon your people will come to pick you up. ”

Rove was silent for a moment and asked, "Is this Avalon?" ”

"I don't know the name of the island." Captain Skeleton shook his head and said, "You can call it whatever you want." ”

Rove thought for a moment and asked again, "Are you leaving?" ”

"Yes." Captain Skeleton nodded: "We can't go ashore, we can only sail on the sea forever." ”

"If you want to find me, just blow this, and I'll pick you up in this boat."

Captain Skeleton reached out and handed over a gray conch, which looked very old, with bronze trimmed on the edge, and a two-tailed mermaid carved into it.

Rove took the conch and climbed up a white marble staircase to the shore.

The ghost ship moved away from the wrecked bridge and headed off into the distance, and soon only the light on the stern faded away, and finally disappeared completely.

Rove stood on the shore and silently watched as the ship disappeared.

At this moment, there was a faint and dull thunder in the sky, and when he looked up, he found that the dark clouds above his head had dispersed.

There was a look of shock in his eyes.

It's already dark, but the night sky is so bright, because ......

There are three moons hanging in the sky!

There is a full moon, a half moon, and a crescent moon, which are distributed in the sky, and the pure moonlight is sprinkled between the heavens and the earth, shining on the sea as if covered with thick snow.

Rove thought he had seen it wrong and blinked, the other two moons did not disappear, they were not hallucinations.

Other than that, there was not a single star in the sky, and the three moons floated in the dark sky, half-hidden in the mist, like peeping eyes behind a silk tent, looking down on the earth.

"Brother, come and see......" Shirley suddenly shouted loudly.

Rove turned around and saw the ponytailed girl standing under a tree, waving at him.

Looking at the girl's expression, Rove had already realized something, he didn't care about the moon in the sky, carried the box, ran over quickly, and came to Shirley's side.

It was a leafy oak tree that sprouted out of the solid rock, twisted branches weaving a dense top.

Rove looked up, and sure enough, he saw a blood-colored human face on the trunk of the tree, his face was blurry, and he couldn't see his appearance clearly, and a pair of blood-red eyes, deep and melancholy.

Rove looked towards the forest farther away, and his scalp tingled.

Because......

On the trunk of each tree, there is a human face.

……

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